TeX and Typography

Monaspace case study lettermatic.com/custom/monaspa…

Hiragana, Katakana, and Unicode johndcook.com/blog/2022/09/2…

Use \begin{quotation} and \end{quotation} to surround multi-paragraph quotes. Will indent within quote.

Use \begin{quote} and \end{quote} to surround short quotes.

Use \mathcal for calligraphic uppercase letters in math mode. e.g. \mathcal{F}

\ldots produces an ellipsis (...). Use this rather than three periods.

How many possible Unicode characters are there? Why? johndcook.com/blog/2019/09/0…

Can use \^ to put a circumflex on the following letter. e.g. r\^ole produces rôle

Greek has two versions of sigma. \sigma is the most common version. \varsigma is the sigma used at the end of a word.

The command for a product is \prod, not \Pi.

Number sets in Unicode and HTML johndcook.com/blog/2021/11/0…

The amsfonts package supplies blackboard math letters, such as \mathbb{R} for the real numbers, as well as other fonts.

Use \phantom{} to insert white space the size of the argument. For example, \phantom{\pi} is an invisible \pi.

The commands for capital Greek letters are the letter name in capital case. e.g. \Gamma, \Delta, etc.

You cannot use \\ to produce a backslash. Use $\backslash$ instead.

Bidirectional text johndcook.com/blog/2020/10/0…

In math mode, use \{ and \} to produce { and }.

Use an en-dash rather than a hyphen for numerical ranges. e.g. pages 3--10.

Differential equation direction plots in TeX tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1391…

Zareba, asterims, and dinkus johndcook.com/blog/2021/06/0…